VOLUME GALLERY

Please join us tonight from 5-8PM, we are thrilled to be opening two incredible shows!

In Gallery One - Christy Matson, Flowers and Leaves. This new body of work draws from on a recently discovered box of 19th C family textiles, including lace, tattered fragments, and woven cloth passed through generations, to consider inherited histories of labor, resistance, and ornament.

In Gallery Two - Arina Erdélyi, Arrangements. In a series of ceramic lighting and wall works, Erdélyi explores tensions of scale and perspective through the pairing of miniature and full-scale forms.

Ross Hansen, Burley Mappa
Mappa burl and oak veneer
86H x 66W x 35.75D inches

Volume Gallery is pleased to present Arrangements, the gallery’s
first solo exhibition with Los Angeles-based artist Arina Erdélyi, opening September 17th, from 5-8PM in gallery two.

In a series of ceramic lighting and wall works, Erdélyi explores tensions of scale and perspective through the pairing of miniature and full-scale forms. Table lamps frame miniature domestic scenes illuminated beneath silk shades, while full-scale plates hang above, extending these scenes into the surrounding space. The surface of each ceramic piece is defined by repeated impressions of a single trimming of ancestral lace pressed into the clay before being fired in a dark, matte black glaze. This motif travels across lamps and plates alike, turning a domestic ornament into a recurring mark, as the delicate pattern settles over these structures like draped cloth or an accumulation of dust in a preserved or abandoned room.

Volume Gallery announces Flowers and Leaves, Christy Matson’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, opening September 17th, from 5-8PM. This new work draws on a recently discovered box of nineteenth-century family textiles, including lace, tatted fragments, and woven cloth passed through generations, to consider inherited
histories of labor, resistance, and ornament.

“Flowers and Leaves begins with a Jacquard-woven tea cloth found in a box of family heirlooms, accompanied by a handwritten note from my grandmother tracing its passage through generations. The cloth dates to the 1830s or 40s and belonged to Sarah Doty Arnold, my fifth great-grandmother, a Quaker woman living in Macedon, New York, within a community shaped by abolitionist networks and early feminist organizing, where radical thought moved through households in
letters, meetings, and domestic exchange.”
-Christy Matson

Miami! Opening tonight - Anders Ruhwald, Sculptures for Plants and People, at Nina Johnson Gallery from 6-9PM.
“This exhibition brings together approximately ten sculptures that function as vessels, planters, and seats. Some works will contain live plants that continue to grow throughout the exhibition, while others invite visitors to sit and spend time among the installation. As the exhibition unfolds, the plants will gradually expand around the ceramic forms, creating what the artist describes as “an evolving relationship between the static sculptural elements and the organic material.”

Jonathan Muecke, Open Objects/2018

Sung Jang, Given, 2024
Granite and oak
21H x 21W x 13D inches

We are thrilled to announce that Intertwine (XI), 2025 by Terumi Saito has been acquired by The Detroit Institute of Arts!

Abigail Chang’s first solo exhibition with the gallery featured reflective surfaces that use familiar proportions from both domestic and public spaces. The objects read as windows viewed at night and invite an acute awareness of one’s surroundings.

Chang presents eight objects of varying shape and scale that borrow from everyday mirrors—cosmetic, full-length, rear-view, safety. Acting as framing devices, they call attention to the relationship of a body in space—encircling the face or reflecting the entire self. Perception itself is the subject of the work, with the viewer in direct dialog.

The objects reference the transition of a window from day to night. In daylight, the reflectivity of a glass pane leaves a glimmering trace in the surrounding environment, while at dusk, the dimming exterior glow contrasts with interior illumination. From within a building at night, the window acts as a blurry mirror and prompts an inhabitant’s sense of exposure.

The work examines reflection as a contemporary condition of viewing, reminding us to notice the ubiquitous reflective surfaces in our daily lives—the ongoing dance of transparency and bouncing light in our built environment.

Still on at Stony Island Arts Bank, a group exhibition of artists and designers that share a common desire to honor where they come from with objects of beauty and brilliance and of enduring meaning and substance. The many perspectives, cultures, and geographies represented in Chicago are brought to life here as these makers intend to better our world through art and craft.

The show features beautiful works by:
Tanya Aguiñiga
Robell Awake
Stephen Burks
Sung Jang
SHENEQUA
Terumi Saito
Larry Tchogninou
Norman Teague

Pictured here works by Larry Tchogninou:
Knuckle Shelf
Plywood and aluminum
32H x 70W x 16D inches
RTU Lamp
Steel and PE sheeting
8H x 18W x 6D inches
Hours are Thursday through Saturday 12-8, and Sunday 12-6, bookings recommended, but walk-ins welcome, schedule a Korean-inspired high tea at Han Cha, or a cocktail at Yunomi while you are there!